Cyberwench, lol @ your fiance! Don't give him any wrong ideas, because frankly, the dread will ALWAYS be bigger!
Shifuku, yes, I added it just over a month ago.
I figured people are asking and asking on how to backcomb, that someone needs to show them and explain while doing it.
Pictures don't exactly do justice on the technique, because it's hard to put it in words without visuals.
Thanks I luuuuuurve your blanketstitch tut too!

I am a newbie in making dreads
I watch a lot of tutorial videos even Laras and the videos from doctored locks. And they were very helpfull - my results get better and better
but have problems with the backcombing. I backcomp and backcomp but it is never enough. I tried the stability test, I tried to hold it up, but mostly it collaps
then I backcomp more, and more agressiv
and at the end, the hair is much shorter and at the ending the hair is getting very thin. Sometimes the ending tears off